Hello,
I am looking for specific documentation on how frequently masternodes will receive payouts and the amount of the payouts. Also, is there a delay for first payout?
What is the equation and where can one obtain the data?
It's all self-made. Basically I get the data (block number, difficulty, etc.) from a normal dashd and compute the expected payout in a little shell-script using the same formula as the reference (C++) Dash-client. The exchange-rate is pulled and averaged from the top 5 exchanges, right now it's Poloniex, Exmo, BTC38, Bittrex and Livecoin.
Since this script isn't stand-alone (it also gets data from a couple of other staticstic-scripts I've implemented, like the ones which create graphics like this one http://178.254.18.153/~pub/masternode_count.png) it wouldn't make sense to publish it.
But if you want to code your own scripts/programs I can help if needed.
Edit: and once I'm back home (I'm traveling right now) I can show you the relevant C++ coding places in the reference client if you can't find them yourself.
I think it would be helpful for newcomers if we had a clean, clear dashboard similar to yours which was easier to find.
Have you seen https://ethstats.net/ for example?
Even if some parts (like generating graphics) were removed, I think this would still be a valuable tool to open source or make available somehow.
For example adding to https://www.dash.org or perhaps integrated into https://dashninja.pl/